Browsing Category Commentary

• Commentary 3

  The myth of the UCI: It is time for a change

  The USPS doping conspiracy was going on under the watch of UCI, so of course UCI and the participants in the conspiracy who cheated sport with dangerous performance ...

  On August 6, 2012 / By admin
• Commentary 18

  Let’s play jurisdiction hot potato!

  We managed to coerce @ZimmermanAnna to focus all 150 watts of her awesomeness on deconstructing the eleventh-hour filing by Lance Armstrong’s legal team that we managed to get ...

  On August 5, 2012 / By admin
• Commentary 3

  Vaughters’ Non-Admission Admission

  @sarcastitom is the Twitter handle of one of those “nom de plume” idiots sitting around on his arse and figuring out the stuff that the high-priced bone idlers ...

  On August 4, 2012 / By admin
• Commentary 4

  McQuaid’s last stand?

  Cyclismas has obtained a copy of this 3 August 2012 Letter from Pat McQuaid, President of the UCI, to William Bock, General Counsel for USADA, which demonstrates the ...

  On August 3, 2012 / By admin
• Commentary 1

  The Overlord’s Tour de France Awards 2012

  Boring. Mundane. A coronation of the inevitable. These are many of the words used to crown this year’s Grand Boucle. However, I still found entertainment value in the Tour ...

  On July 22, 2012 / By admin
• Commentary 1

  What’s a Froome to do?

  What is Team Sky’s Chris Froome to do? Clearly on stage 17 he could have ridden away from his team leader Brad Wiggins on the final climb. Quite ...

  On July 20, 2012 / By admin
• Commentary 18

  What is my trouble with a Team Sky Tour de France victory?

  A portion of my real life career has taken me to Fortune 500 board rooms and the halls of higher levels of government to assist in the determination ...

  On July 19, 2012 / By admin
• Commentary 0

  On Witness Intimidation and “Stop Snitching”

  While this year’s Tour de France moves through the month of July it is not surprising that a doping controversy has again marred the race, although it involves ...

  On July 16, 2012 / By admin
• Commentary 8

  The danger of public relations disguised as nationalistic fervour

  History is littered with examples of government “marketing campaigns” designed to rally a national population behind a cause deemed to be for the “greater good” of that nation ...

  On July 15, 2012 / By admin
• Commentary 3

  #unconstitutional

  One of the things the Constitution promises us is that we won’t be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process.  It’s in the fifth and fourteenth amendments of ...

  On July 13, 2012 / By admin